My take on data privacy.
Many in the space suggest adopting self-hosted solutions like Umbrel and the like. While I fully understand that owning your own data is a desirable thing, I cannot fail to notice that such solutions leave you vulnerable to the worst actor out there, which is the state. This is because it has the power and the will to confiscate your equipment, and we all know that it is just a matter of time after that, before you are doomed. Running such services on a remote host is not much different.
I wonder than if finding "trusted" open source third parties with which you can communicate via local encryption (meaning that they cannot see anything) is not a better solution, although of course not optimal.
Any thoughts?
#privacy #data #crypto
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